Despite the name of the blog, these are not actually tall tales. They are the stories of my adventures while preaching the gospel to the people of Oregon and Washington.

Wednesday, December 7, 2016

I'm loving missionary work more than ever

December
5, 2016

Fam!

Life has
been good this past week. Elder Fouts and I have been working hard on being
EXACTLY obedient and we have seen a ton of miracles. We also had our ward
Christmas party which was pretty fun. The members in this ward seriously are the
best. I'm loving missionary work more than ever.

Definitely the coolest miracle this week came from on invitation
by Elder Kopischke who visited our mission a while ago. He challenged us to
wake up a few minutes early each day and envision who we were going to find and
baptize.Wednesdaymorning I envisioned an
African-American girl, about 17 years old who was like 5'6" and did
gymnastics. Worked all day with no luck.Thursdayno
luck.Fridayno luck.Saturdayno luck.SundayI woke up early again and
envisioned a specific part of one apartment complex in our area. I didn't think
we would have time to knock it because our evening was packed, but our whole
evening fell through and we had 40 minutes to knock the complex. Things to
remember 1) it had already been dark for like two hours and 2) We thought we
would be inside all night so neither Elder Fouts nor I had coats with us.

So we parked in front of the complex I felt inspired about and
started knocking. No luck. We moved to the next section and had no luck. That
continued through the cold all the way until it was time to go home. As we
walked to our car in front of the first complex, a car pulled into a parking
spot right in front of us. Out of the car came Maya - A 17 year old Africa
American girl about 5'6" With a gym bag in her hands. The church is true
people!! God doesn't do random!

Funny: At the ward Christmas party they did a breakfast for
dinner thing with eggs and funeral potatoes and French toast and cinnamon
rolls. One of the ward members convinced me that he had put the extra cinnamon
roll frosting in a Tupperware for me. I was super excited and put many layers
of it on my French toast. I took one bite and realized that I had covered the
surface of all my French toast with butter that looked like frosting!

“Remember,
but first and forever there was just a little family, without toys or trees or
tinsel. With a baby - that's how Christmas Began.”

~Elder Holland

S/O to my high school for being the setting for almost half of
the "light the world" video.

Trust me. I probably know he Skyline scenery better than my own house!